AWS Enterprise Cloud Architect - Migration & Modernization

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead cloud migrations and modernization. You will work with the Cloud Center of Excellence, guiding SRE/DevOps, implementing secure, scalable AWS environments, and integrating CI/CD and IaC practices.

The role emphasizes architecture, automation, and security across migration, modernization, and ongoing operations within a regulated financial services setting.

Qualifications

• Migration experience moving on-premises environments to AWS with legacy considerations.
• Modernization mindset including re-platforming and re-architecting workloads.
• AWS architecture mastery, VPC/subnet design and security-by-design.
• Security-first approach in regulated environments.
• DSRE/DevOps practices including monitoring and observability.
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
• CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins experience.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Cloud security controls implementation.
• AWS certification at least Associate; professional level preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment on AWS.
• Lead and develop cloud services with a strong engineering bar.
• Architect and optimize workloads for resilience, security, cost and performance.
• Plan migrations from on-premises to AWS with tailored approaches.
• Re-platform and modernize as part of migration, updating OS and apps for cloud.
• Advise Cloud Center of Excellence and align with SRE/DevOps.
• Support CI/CD, monitoring and observability in pipelines.
• Embed security into design from VPC layout to deployment.

Skills

Migration

Modernization

AWS services

Security design

DevOps

Containerization

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security

Certification

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead cloud migrations and modernization. You will work with the Cloud Center of Excellence, guiding SRE/DevOps, implementing secure, scalable AWS environments, and integrating CI/CD and IaC practices.

The role emphasizes architecture, automation, and security across migration, modernization, and ongoing operations within a regulated financial services setting.